Weekly Playlist

1. Wondering Why ~ Merl Saunders
2. Little Sister ~ Queens of the Stone Age
3. There Goes My Gun ~ Pixies
4. Gut Feeling ~ Devo
5. Somewhere Over The Rainbow ~ Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
6. About A Girl ~ Nirvana
7. Charlie Don't Surf ~ The Clash
8. Gates of Eden ~ Bob Dylan
9. Ma & Pa ~ Fishbone
10. Israelites ~ Desmond Dekker
    

You Go Girl!

Shields Attacks Cruise for Criticizing Her Drug Use

Actress Brooke Shields has lambasted former palTom Cruise for criticizing her "misguided" use of drugs to combat her post-natal depression. Cruise - who claims to have helped people fight drug addictions through his controversial Scientology religion - recently attacked the Shields for becoming dependant on Paxil, following the birth of her daughter Rowan. But Shields is disgusted by the Cruise's "dangerous" comments and took a swipe at his Scientology beliefs, by saying she wouldn't take advice from someone who devotes his life to creatures from outer space. She fumes, "His comments are dangerous. He should stick to saving the world from aliens."

Well Well Well. Dick's Offended

Dick Cheney says he's offended by a human rights group's report criticizing conditions at the prison camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.

The report Amnesty International released last week said prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba had been mistreated and called for the prison to be shut down. Cheney derided the London-based group in an interview set to be broadcast Monday night on CNN's "Larry King Live."

U.S. Navy

"Frankly, I was offended by it," Cheney said in the videotaped interview. "For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously."

Cheney is the latest Bush administration official to object to the report. On Sunday, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers called the Amnesty International report "absolutely irresponsible."

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What We're Addicted To At The Moment

My Favourite Soap

Blender Crossword ~ June

They seem to be getting a little harder.


ACROSS

1 ’00s pinup Jesse, or ’60s pinup Paul Chelly ~ McCartney
4 Colorful jam band Sister ______
7 Nü-metallers with the hit “Vermilion”
8 & 10 9 down’s 2004 No. 1 hit with (literally) a click track (five words)
11 She loves rock & roll (so put another dime in the jukebox, baby) Jessa ~ Jett
12 2004 hit about an optimist Jody ~ MrBrightside
15 Scissor Sisters’ suggestion of a hot night on the town (three words) Jody ~ TakeYourMama
20 “_____ Guru” (Captain Beefheart) Jody ~ Ella
21 Nü-metal act that did a collision-course mashup album with Jay-Z (two words)
25 Hendrix asked, “_______ Experienced?” (two words) Jessa ~ Are You
26 1976 Aerosmith slow-dance classic (two words) Jody ~ DreamOn
27 Seasonal Patti Smith album Chelly ~ Horses
28 Atlanta rapper né Christopher Bridges

DOWN

1 De La Soul knows it’s just me, ______ and I
2 C&W political button-pushers Jody ~ Chicks
3. _______ don't lose that number Jody ~ Rikki
4 Nine Inch Nails song covered by Johnny Cash Jessa ~ Hurt
5 Houses of the Holy residents, for short Jody ~ Zeppelin
6 The Beatles’ last movie (three words) Jody ~ LetItBe
9 Rapper Snoop who announced his desire to coach the Steelers
13 Jamie’s 2004 Oscar- nominated role
14 Audioslave’s Morello Jessa ~ Tom
15 Rapper thrown out of 17 down
16 Las Vegas New Wave revival band with the hit 12 across
17 G-___ Chelly ~ Unit
18 One of the Beasties Jody ~ MikeD
19 Robert who was addicted to love in the ’80s Jessa ~ Plamer
22 “I ___ Girl” (Puff Daddy)
23 Southern royalty from Leon
24 “November Rain” singer Jessa ~ Rose

A Movie Close To My Heart

ALTERNATIVE CANADIAN WALK OF FAME

Inductee: Strange Brew

Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas as Bob and Doug McKenzie. Reason for Induction: For taking the piss out of CanCon, putting the beer (back) in Shakespeare — and being a beauty movie, eh. Citation: Somewhere, behind granite battlements, beyond impenetrable gates — indoors — something evil is brewing. And it isn’t Elsinore beer. Here, an unsuspecting heiress has become the innocent pawn of a diabolical genius. At his command: space-age super-lasers that can incinerate an entire metropolis, [and] an army of deadly hockey warriors. At his fingertips, lots of beer. What fool dares stand in his way? Actually, fools. The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew (1983) tells the story of two beer-addled brothers (Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis) who thwart a sinister plot to rule the world via mind-controlling lager. The movie’s theatrical trailer, cited above, did little to tip viewers that it’s a loose — very loose — remake of Hamlet: The McKenzies (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern) take jobs at Elsinore Brewery (Elsinore Castle), where they befriend Pam (Hamlet), the brewery’s new majority owner following the suspicious death of her father, John Elsinore (Hamlet’s dad). Pamlet’s mother Gertrude (Queen Gertrude) has already been remarried, to her dead husband’s bumbling brother Claude (Claudius, played by classic character actor Paul Dooley). The only piece that doesn’t fit the Hamlet homage is “diabolical genius” Brewmeister Smith, gleefully overacted by a slumming Max von Sydow (The Exorcist, Three Days of the Condor, a big heap of Bergman). But enough intellectualism — Strange Brew was made by and for hosers. Moranis (Bob) and Thomas (Doug) had invented the McKenzies during their days at SCTV. The characters came in response to federal government requirements to include “identifiable Canadian content” in homegrown television programming. To that end, the brothers embody every negative Canadian stereotype. In the film they dress in tuques, plaid shirts and parkas, talk funny (“Take off, eh”), drink too much (“My brother and I used to say that drownin’ in beer was like heaven, eh? Now he’s not here, and I’ve got two soakers.... This isn’t heaven, this sucks!”) and generally carry on like, well, hosers (“Gimme a toasted back bacon, and hold the toast”). The trailer’s promised “super-lasers” never show up, but why quibble with so much to love in their stead: like, say, Mel “Bugs Bunny” Blanc as the voice of the McKenzies’ dad. Needless to say, Bob and Doug were wildly popular with SCTV’s audience. The boys’ recurring skit, “The Great White North” (a.k.a. “Kanadian Korner”), debuted in 1980 as a two-minute bit only intended for Canadian audiences, but was soon included in American versions of the show. The act snowballed to a comedy album, 1981’s Great White North (reportedly recorded in one four-hour session, with the assistance of a great many beers), and then Strange Brew, which claimed the Golden Reel Award, for Canada’s highest-grossing domestic film, at the 1984 Genies. Strange Brew fits nobody’s definition of perfect, but, to be perfectly frank, any Canuck who doesn’t bond with Bob and Doug is asking — no, begging — for a steamroller. Matthew McKinnon writes about the arts for CBC.ca.

School Describes African-American Student as "Black Girl" in Yearbook

In Texas a public high school has apologized for describing an African-American student as simply a "Black GIrl" instead of running her name in a photo in the school's yearbook. The photo featured members of the school's National Honor Society. Every student was identified by name except one female student who was the only African-American pictured. Instead of her name were the words "Black Girl". The school claims the words were used as an inappropriate placeholder that was overlooked before publication.

Weird headlines ~ May 26th

Judge Bars Photos of Jackson Genitalia

Canada Suicide Hotline to Open Only From 9 to 5

Jolie Claims No Pitt Relationship

Hoarders in Norway Wiping Out Toilet Paper Supply

Substitute Teacher Fired For Taping Mouths

Great-Grandmother Gives Birth To Twins

Renee Zellwegger's New Husband

Now I know why he's always wearing a huge cowboy hat.
He looks just like Scott Hamilton.

Lost Season Finale Tonight!

And we can hardly wait!

Now He's A Fucking Doctor

Cruise Slams Shields' Drug Use

Tom Cruise has criticized Hollywood pal Brook Shields' "misguided" use of the anti-depressant Paxil, while declaring the actress' career as over.

In an interview with Billy Bush on TV show Access Hollywood, to be screened on Thursday, Cruise speaks of his disappointment to learn Shields used Paxil to fight post-natal depression following the birth of her daughter Rowan. Shields is currently weaning herself off her medication so she and husband Chris Henchy can have another child.

Cruise, who claims to have helped hundreds of people fight drug addictions through his controversial Scientology religion, says the Suddenly Susan actress should have used vitamins to help her feelings of despair. Cruise says, "Here is a woman, and I care about Brook Shields because I think she is an incredibly talented woman. You look at, where has her career gone?" Despite the Minority Report actor's declaration her career is over, Shields is currently receiving rave reviews playing murderess Roxie Hart in the London theatre production of Chicago. Cruise maintains, "These drugs are dangerous. I have actually helped people come off. When you talk about postpartum, you can take people today, women, and what you do is you use vitamins. There is a hormonal thing that is going on, scientifically, you can prove that. But when you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that. You can use vitamins to help a woman through those things."

Source: IMDB

The Nerve!

The family of NFL star turned soldier, Pat Tillman have expressed anger at the US army's handling of his death. "After it happened, all the people in positions of authority went out of their way to script this," his father told the Washington Post. Tillman died in Afghanistan in 2004 and for weeks afterwards, US army officials said he was killed by enemy fire. They are said to have known he had been accidentally shot by US troops, but failed to inform his family of this. Tillman's parents said they believe the military concocted the story that their son had been killed in a hail of enemy fire to stimulate national pride. "They purposely interfered with the investigation, they covered it up. I think they thought they could control it, and they realised that their recruiting efforts were going to go to hell in a hand basket if the truth about the death got out. They blew up their poster boy," Patrick Tillman Senior said. Tillman turned his back on a contract with the Arizona Cardinals American football team, worth $3.6m (£2m), when he joined the US army six months after the 11 September 2001 attacks. He enlisted in the US Rangers alongside his brother Kevin - a former professional baseball player with the Cleveland Indians - and both were subsequently despatched to Afghanistan as part of the US war on terror. "Pat had high ideals about the country, that's why he did what he did. The military let him down. The administration let him down. It was a sign of disrespect," his mother Mary Tillman said. Uniform burnt Tillman died on 22 April 2004 when his US Rangers patrol was hit by gunfire as it passed along a canyon road in Khost province, south of Kabul, at twilight. The 27-year-old was hit by a hail of bullets, which army officials quickly claimed came from the enemy - a story they stuck to for weeks afterwards. But according to a recent US military investigation, army chiefs were informed that Tillman's death was the result of "friendly fire" within days of his death, but chose not to reveal this fact to his family or friends. The true details of his death were not made known until 29 May 2004, weeks after a televised memorial service in which fans paid tribute to the man hailed as an "American hero". "The fact that he was the ultimate team player and he watched his own men kill him is absolutely heartbreaking and tragic. The fact that they lied about it afterward is disgusting," his mother said. Tillman's uniform and body armour were burned the day after he was fatally shot. At the time, officials claimed his uniform had been burned because it presented a biohazard. However, investigators now say his clothes should have been preserved as evidence. The military investigation, led by Brig Gen Gary Jones of the Army Special Operations Command, was carried out at the request of Tillman family, who wanted to know why the uniform was burned and why information was withheld.

Cutest Change Purses Ever!

Busy Busy Busy

I have been so busy as of late that I haven't even had time to put up my Hummingbird feeder. Usually I'm more on the ball but not this spring.

I feel so bad for the little guys, they keep coming to the spot where the feeder is supposed to be and then fly away. Just what I need in my life more guilt. The list of things that I'm behind on is longer then I can even bare to think of.

Dave, How Could You???

Chimpanzees Carry Viruses Which Can Jump To Humans

Two new viruses from the same family as HIV have been discovered in central Africans who hunt nonhuman primates.

Just another reason to leave these amazing creatures the fuck alone.

Full article here.

White Peacock

I never knew there was such a thing.

What I'm Addicted To At The Moment

Woo Hoo!!!!

Engrish Pic of the Week

Mom, I'm seeing white rabbits again...

The Rob & Amber Show

Well, tonight's the season finale of The Amazing Race.
I just want it to be over!

Poppy's coming over and I will try and watch it without freaking out.
I still can't believe Uchenna & Joyce haven't won anything yet, maybe they are saving the best for last.
Let's hope so.

Quote of the Week ~ Thom Yorke

Would you ever license your music for use in a television advertisement for something like soap or mid-size Korean automobiles? Radjules, Metairie, Louisiana


Thom Yorke
"No. The way ad agencies work is to suck the blood of any vaguely original or unique thing in order to breathe life into their dead creations. We expend too much effort creating this stuff to have someone appropriate it for whatever junk they’re trying to flog."

Out Tomorrow On DVD ~ I'm So Excited!

05.09.2005 John Cusack

Good-bye Hunter S.

Went to Hunter S. Thompson’s memorial service in Aspen. The next day, we went to Owl Farm -- which remained untouched since Hunter’s death two weeks before. The sun was shining and gunfire echoed as friends and family gathered and shot targets on the lawn. Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the Sky” booming. Books, notes, numbers, pills, bullets, totems and talismans everywhere. Outside his wife offered liquid acid to people in the driveway. In the kitchen where he took his life, a huge American flag overlooked his suicide. He was looking right at it.

I jotted down a few things he had written and posted on the walls.

In the kitchen:

Wisdom is better than wit -- Jane Austin
The final mystery is oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? -- Oscar Wilde
Beauty is not in the face…it is a light in the heart -- Khahlil Gibran
One changes from day to day…every few years one becomes a new being -- George Sand

And down in the basement amidst the endless archives of a lifetime, in the “war room” where he wrote his great works:

In my own country
I am in a far off land
I am strong yet have
No force or power
I win yet remain a loser
At break of day I say goodnight
When I lie down I have a great fear of falling -- François Villion

And finally, scribbled with customary flair on a half ripped paper thumbtacked above his desk:

Beware!
the floor is slick
and greasy
And dangerous…
Get down on all fours to proceed
-- Doc

Goodbye Hunter. All the good ones seem to be moving on these days...

Here is just one of the good doctor’s final ruminations on our American experience. He sent it to me on a t-shirt a few months ago:

'Politics is the art of controlling your environment.' That is one of the key things I learned in these years, and I learned it the hard way. Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid War on the other side of the World -- or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property -- or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons -- or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.

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Congratulations Steve!

Canada's Nash Wins NBA MVP Award

Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash made history on Sunday, becoming the first Canadian to win the NBA's most valuable player award.

The Victoria native edged the Miami Heat's Shaquille O'Neal by 34 votes in the fourth closest margin of victory in 24 years.

Nash had 65 first-place votes to O'Neal's 58.

In true selfless fashion, he asked his Suns teammates to join him on the podium to share the accolades. He embraced each player as they stepped on the stage.

Giving the honour to Nash represents a major change in philosophy among MVP voters, a recognition of unselfish play more than individual accomplishments.

"I definitely won this award because of my role on the team," said Nash before the official announcement. "I didn't win this because I overpower people or I'm dominating people with physical ability, whether it's jumping ability or strength or height."

He's the only fourth point guard to win the award after Magic Johnson, Oscar Robertson and Bob Cousy.

Nash didn't come close to leading the league in scoring, but he received most of the credit for turning the Suns around this season.

With the 31-year-old guard at the helm, the Suns played an up-tempo style and blew opponents away with their offence on their way to a best record in the league.

The Suns averaged 110 points per game, the most in the league in the past decade, and Nash led the league with 11.5 assists per contest.

There's a general consensus that Nash is the most improbable, non-traditional winner in the 50-year history of the award.

Even Nash can't believe someone from his background could become the NBA's MVP.

U.S. college recruiters weren't interested in him when he was leading his high school in Victoria to the provincial championship.

"I don't really know what to make of it," he said. "I had one scholarship offer, and I didn't have any NBA players in my neighbourhood. I don't even think I dreamed about this award."

After spending four years at Santa Clara University, Nash became the highest Canadian selection in the NBA draft when he was chosen 15th overall by the Suns in 1996.

And he certainly didn't show the makings of a future all-star at the start of his professional career. He received very little playing time in his first two years in Phoenix. When he was traded to Dallas two years later, he struggled with injuries and played poorly.

Nash finally broke out in 2001 and helped lead the Mavericks to unprecedented success over the next four seasons before signing a contract with the Suns last summer.

He said the only thing that's keeping him focused right now is the Suns are still in the playoffs. They are scheduled to play Nash's old team, Dallas, in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals on Monday.

It does fill him with a sense of national pride, however.

"There's no better feeling really than to make your whole country proud," he said. "It's an incredible amount of positive energy coming my way."

This Was In Our Backyard Today

COYOTE (Canis latrans)

Top 10 Most Popular Baby Names in 2004

Girls:

1. Emily

2. Emma

3. Madison

4. Olivia

5. Hannah

6. Abigail

7. Isabella

8. Ashley

9. Samantha

10. Elizabeth

Boys:

1. Jacob

2. Michael

3. Joshua

4. Matthew

5. Ethan

6. Andrew

7. Daniel

8. William

9. Joseph

10. Christopher

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Disturbing Entertainment News

Farrell Begged 70-Year-Old Actress for Sex

Actor Colin Farrell has been left red-faced after 70-year-old actress Dame Eileen Atkins boasted she recently rejected his desperate requests for casual sex. Cold Mountain star, Atkins revealed the Irish lothario spent nearly three hours begging her to sleep with him, but despite his stunning looks, she turned him down because he is 42 years her junior. She explains, "Three weeks before my 70th birthday, a simply stunning, gorgeous big film star came into my hotel room for sex without strings. I spent two and a half hours saying no, but it cheered me up fantastically. "I said no, in the end because he said, 'The reason you won't do it is because your body isn't as good as it was when you were young, isn't it? But I don't care about that.' "But I'm too proud of how I looked when I was younger. My body is still the same weight, but it's all distributed in a different way." The actress initially intended to spare Farrell's blushes by keeping his identity secret, but her agent says, "I can confirm that it is Colin Farrell that made the advance." Atkins and Farrell met during filming of movie Ask The Dust which hits cinemas later this year.

Courtesy of IMDB

RIP Bob Hunter

Hunter (left) took an active part in Greenpeace's work

Canadian co-founder of Greenpeace environmental group Bob Hunter has died after suffering from prostate cancer.

He helped to found Greenpeace in 1971 and went on to draw global attention with campaigns against nuclear testing and pollution of the world's oceans.

Mr Hunter, 63, was also well-known for his work as a journalist and author.

"Bob was an inspirational storyteller, an audacious fighter and an unpretentious mystic," Greenpeace Canada Chairman John Doherty said.

"He was serious about saving the world while always maintaining a sense of humour."

'Massive spirit'

Mr Hunter's passion for ecology and approach to communications helped to define Greenpeace, the group said.

He was responsible for adopting the term "Rainbow Warriors" to describe Greenpeace activists, which which also became the name of the Greenpeace ship.

He brought public attention to the hunting of whales and seals.

Today, the organisation has 2.5 million members in 40 countries.

Time magazine named him one of the 20th century's top eco-heroes.

In other roles, he worked as an environmental reporter on TV as well as hosting Paper Cuts - in which he commented on the day's newspaper headlines clad in a bathrobe.

"This was a man with a great loving heart, a brilliant mind and a massive spirit," said Stephen Hurlbut, CityTV vice-president of news programming.

"Bob Hunter changed our world. It is a sadder world today, but a better world because of him."

He died attended by his wife and three children, Canadian media reports.

Yea, That'll Work

It's clobberin' time! How else to explain yesterday's midday appearance, down in the Pentagon basement, of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (normal human strength, no known superpowers), wedged between Spider-Man and Captain America, trying his best to melt that icy glare of his into a boy-am-I-glad-you-guys-showed-up kind of smirk?

Either Marvel Comics is really hard up for readers and needs an ultra-dynamic, Pentagon-heavy publicity gimmick to boost its sales, or Rumsfeld is finally ready to admit that only a superhero can extricate us from Iraq.

The official explanation for this partnership (The Titanic Three? The Terrific Trio?) is this: Marvel Comics has created a custom "Support Our Troops" comic book starring the New Avengers and the Fantastic Four for "America Supports You," a Defense Department campaign. One million copies will be distributed to service members in the United States and overseas. But as any friend of the Avengers can tell you, the official explanation sometimes can't be trusted.

By Hanna Rosin

Washington Post Staff Writer

Update on Creepy

TOM Cruise might have found the perfect woman in Katie Holmes. According to British tabs, Holmes claims she's still a virgin at 26 and might remain chaste. Cruise's first wife, Mimi Rogers, told Playboy in 1993: "Tom was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. And he thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument ... it became obvious we had to split." In Rome, Cruise and Holmes are staying at the romantic Hassler Hotel, where he used to bring Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz.

Yup, I'd say it just got a whole lot weirder.


Creepy info courtesy of Page Six